LABOUR LEADER ON PREFERENCE-
Press Association —Copyright. Received May 7,11.10 p.m. Melbourne, May 7,
Mr Prendergast, leader of the Labour Party, in a speech said the people were creatures of those who ' were pleading preferential trade, the same people who ted them into the Boer war. Of all the resolutions submitted in favour of preferential not one was designed for the benefit of the people. They were all for traders. The sort of preferential trade English capitalists wanted was the kind they sent their soldiers out to get for them. They had their hands on nearly everything in Australia and every time they got a show they cut down wages and increased the hours of labour, so as to create bigger dividends. If people put up with that sort of foreign government they would bo doing an injustice to themselves.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 106, 8 May 1907, Page 5
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